Sunrise

Sunrise is a 1980s pocket of detached houses in the interior of West Windsor Township, reached from Penn Lyle Road on one side and North Post Road on the other, with a Princeton Junction mailing address in the 08550 ZIP. The listing remarks for the community keep reaching for the same word, contemporary, and it is the right one: skylights, angular rooflines, sunrooms and three-season rooms recur, and repeating model names such as Bermuda and Hampton point to a set of plans built out across the streets rather than a street of one-off custom houses. What tends to surprise buyers is the size. Sunrise is often summarized as a neighborhood of 2,700 to 3,000 square foot houses, and our own closed sales say otherwise.

The homes

Our BrightMLS records for Sunrise cover eleven closed sales, built between 1980 and 1989, with 1985 the single most common year at four of the eleven. Every one is a detached single-family house on public water and public sewer with a two-car garage. Above-grade square footage runs from 2,519 at 6 Indian Run Road to 4,160 at 24 Hereford Drive, with a median near 3,170. Only one of the eleven falls inside the 2,700 to 3,000 square foot band that older descriptions of Sunrise quote, so treat that band as out of date. Bedroom counts are four or five, and bathrooms run from two full plus a half up to four full. Individual listings put finished basements, fireplaces, sunrooms and three-season rooms on record. Lot size is not reported in BrightMLS for these sales, so there is no honest neighborhood average to give, but two listings do document a number: 0.49 acre at 24 Indian Run Road and 0.62 acre at 6 Arnold Drive. Association fees are likewise unreported, which means not stated rather than confirmed absent, so ask on the specific house.

Setting

The streets in our records are Arnold Drive, Hawk Drive, Hereford Drive, Indian Run Road, Lorrie Lane, Brendan Place and Margaret Court, with Ward Road filed here too in the school district's street directory, and 8 Margaret sits on a cul-de-sac. Clarksville Road runs just to the north, and the neighborhood is entered from Penn Lyle Road and North Post Road, which puts it in the residential interior of West Windsor rather than on a highway frontage. Landscaping is what four decades produces, and the streets are destinations rather than through routes. Princeton-Hightstown Road, which is Route 571, is the east-west road that carries you out of the neighborhood, and US Route 1 is roughly three miles north by way of Washington Road. One home here, 1 Brendan Place, sold with a private pool, which is that owner's improvement rather than a shared amenity.

Schools

Every address here sits inside the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, which serves West Windsor Township in Mercer County together with Plainsboro Township in Middlesex County. The structure is tiered: lower elementary schools, then upper elementary schools, then middle schools, then two high schools, North and South. The point worth knowing before you write an offer is that assignment runs by address rather than by town, and West Windsor is genuinely split. Neighborhoods such as Princeton Oaks and Windsor Hunt route to Community Middle School and High School North even though they sit in West Windsor, while others route to Grover and High School South. Sunrise is uniform on this. Every one of its streets in the district's street directory, Arnold Drive, Hawk Drive, Hereford Drive, Indian Run Road, Lorrie Lane, Brendan Place, Margaret Court and Ward Road, is listed to Maurice Hawk Elementary School, then Village School, then Thomas R. Grover Middle School, then High School South. Worth knowing as a naming quirk: that directory files these streets under several development names, Sunrise I and Sunrise II among them, while BrightMLS records the whole pocket as Sunrise. Boundaries do get redrawn, so confirm the current assignment for the specific address with the district.

Market position

Nine homes closed in Sunrise in the past 24 months, at a median of $1,220,000, in a range from $1,100,000 at 6 Indian Run Road to $1,372,000 at 15 Hawk Drive. Two older sales sit outside that window and are not in the median: 34 Lorrie Lane closed at $999,999 in July 2023 and 1 Brendan Place at $1,240,000 in April 2024. Measured against the original asking price rather than a reduced one, those nine averaged about 104 percent, with six closing above the original ask, one right at it and two below. The median time from listing to contract was nine days, and three of the eleven listings on record set a highest and best offer deadline, which is the pattern that pace produces. Nine sales is a limited sample and this page labels it as one, so read it as a picture of current demand rather than a durable trend. The two that closed under their original ask are the more instructive ones: 37 Lorrie Lane opened at $1,280,000 and closed at $1,220,000, and 24 Hereford Drive opened at $1,245,000 and closed at $1,175,000 after 43 days, well past the rest of the group. Both started above where the neighborhood was actually clearing. With square footage spread from 2,519 to 4,160, a house-by-house comparison matters more here than a neighborhood median, and that is the work behind any number we recommend.